Improvement in coffee-roasters



2Sheets--Sheet1. GEORGE W. DODSON.

Coffee-Roaster.

N0. 126,037. Patented April23,1872.

Witnesses: Inventor flttorneys.

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GEORGE W. DODSON, OF MITCHELL, INDIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN COFFEE-ROASTERS.

r Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 126,037, dated April23, 1872.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. DoDsoN, of Mitchell, in the county ofLawrence and in the State of Indiana, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Coffee-Roaster; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, referencebeing had to the accompanying drawing and to the letters of referencemarked thereon makin g a part of this specification.

The nature of my invention consists in the construction and arrangementof a' Coffee- Roaster, as will be hereinafter more fully set forth.

In order to enable others skilled inthe art to which my inventionappertains to make and use the same, I will now proceed to describe itsconstruction and operation, referring to the annexed drawing, in which-Figure 1 is a side view of the interior roasting-globe, and Fig. 2. is avertical section of my entireroaster.

My coffee-roaster is made of an exterior globe, A, and an interiorglobe, B. The exterior globe A is cast in two pieces, forming a top andbottom, the bottom part being provided with feet a a, and also with acircumferential flange, b, so that it can be placed in any stove hole,and rest upon the top of the stove.

The interior globe B, consists of two spherical heads or end piecesconnected by ribs 01 cl, and having'a wire-screen, 0, between themaround the entire circumference, a door, D, being formed in said screen.A shaft, E, passes through the center of this interior globe, and restsin bearings formed in the joint" between the two parts of the exteriorglobe A. This shaft has upon one end a crank, G, by means of which it isturned.

The coffee to be roasted is put in the interior globe B through the doorD, and this globe placed in the exterior globe A. This exterior globeforms a hot-air chamber around the globe containing the cofiee, which iskept continually revolving. The screen 0 of the interior globe cleansthe coffee from all chaff and dust in the same. 1

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The coifee-roaster described, consisting of an outer and an innersphere, A B, the outer sphere A, being bisected at its center, and bothsections rabbeted around their circumferences, the lower section havingside lugs 11 b and legs art, and the inner sphere having screen 0, doord, and operating-shaft E, all as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand this13th day of G. W. DODSON.

February, 1872.

WVitnesses:

MARTIN D. CLINE, FRANK T. WOODFOR-D.

